How to format your references using the Obesity Facts citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Obesity Facts. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Wadman M. Race is on for flu vaccine. Nature. 2005 Nov;438(7064):23.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hamilton DP, Krüger H. The sculpting of Jupiter’s gossamer rings by its shadow. Nature. 2008 May;453(7191):72–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karan S, Jiang Z, Livingston AG. MEMBRANE FILTRATION. Sub-10 nm polyamide nanofilms with ultrafast solvent transport for molecular separation. Science. 2015 Jun;348(6241):1347–51.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Biron D, Libros P, Sagi D, Mirelman D, Moses E. Asexual reproduction: “midwives” assist dividing amoebae. Nature. 2001 Mar;410(6827):430.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Yavaş M. Applied English Phonology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Gandon F, Sabou M, Sack H, d’Amato C, Cudré-Mauroux P, Zimmermann A, editors. The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains: 12th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2015, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 31 -- June 4, 2015. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahonen P, Alahuhta P, Daskala B, Delaitre S, Hert PD, Lindner R, et al. Safeguards. In: Alahuhta P, Daskala B, Delaitre S, Hert PD, Lindner R, Maghiros I, et al., editors. Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010; pp 179–251.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Obesity Facts.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Why The Man Behind The New Horizons Mission Wants Pluto To Be A Planet Again [Internet]. IFLScience. 2017 Feb [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-the-man-behind-the-new-horizons-mission-wants-pluto-to-be-a-planet-again/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Business Continuity and Contingency Planning (Supersedes AIMD-10.1.19). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lanza KM. The antecedents of automotive brand loyalty and repurchase intentions. 2008

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Kelly DA. New Audio Books Pack a Lot More Prose. New York Times. 2006 May;TR6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Obesity Facts
Abbreviation	Obes. Facts
ISSN (print)	1662-4025
ISSN (online)	1662-4033
Scope	Physiology (medical) Health(social science)